WhoreMods -> RE: Will the UK Conservatives ever form a government? (6/13/2017 8:45:19 AM)
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Murdoch's very in favour of Scottish independence, as a matter of fact. Rather than a political issue, he sees it as an opportunity to take over from the BBC north of the border if Scotland leads the UK. There was quite a bit about that in Private Eye and the New Statesman in the run up to the referendum: mostly accounts of Alex Salmond going utterly ballistic whenever anybody in the media mentioned his negotiations with Murdoch. I think the SNP are still refusing to talk to DC Thompson even now over one of their news magazines revealing this, aren't they? Gove was one of Johnson's accomplices during the referendum campaign, and threw his hat into the ring for the leadership afterwards. Johnson didn't, for some reason, try for leadership of the conservative party at that point, possibly because being PM during the Brexit process could well prove the kiss of death for a further political career afterwards but also (and May's treatment of Gove bears this out) because the winner of any such pissing match is unlikely to treat their defeated rivals with indulgent tolerance afterwards.
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